Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Callous dad-of-six pounced as helpless woman took her shopping in from the car
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAn 'opportunistic' thief drove off in an injured woman's car with the boot wide open as she tried to bring her supermarket shopping in.
Naveed Hamid is the first of five men who are being brought to justice following a series of car thefts. The 36-year-old, from Oldham, pinched the woman's keys from her front door after she had brought two bags of shopping into her home, Minshull Street Crown Court heard.
As she went back to the front of her house to pick up her final bag, she saw Hamid bundling into her Volkswagen Golf before fleeing the street.
Prosecuting, Hugh McKee said: "[The victim] was carrying shopping from the car into her house. The key was left in the front door and that fob also had the key for her car. READ MORE: Neighbours heard 'massive bang' after ambulance flipped over in crash that caused 'havoc' "She had taken two bags of shopping to the house but she was in a leg brace so tasks took her longer than most.
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